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HAWAII THEATRE CENTER

HAWAII THEATRE CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,675,707 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($237,252). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.8M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$8.1M
32/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Hawaii Theatre Center does

Mission

To restore, renovate & operate the hawaii theatre as a leading performance center in downtown honolulu.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Theatre operations and maintenance: the theatre is open year round to provide a modern performance venue for international, national, and local performing arts presenters for the enrichment and enjoyment of the residents and visitors of hawaii. The theatre also presents attractions to augment the schedule, including its education program services for public and private school children.

    $4,762,855 spent$3,453,025 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,762,855.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 63 ($1.3M) Expenses 95 ($2.7M) Net assets 90 ($13M)2019 Revenue 143 ($2.9M) Expenses 134 ($3.8M) Net assets 84 ($12M)2020 Revenue 104 ($2.1M) Expenses 137 ($3.9M) Net assets 72 ($11M)2021 Revenue 57 ($1.2M) Expenses 74 ($2.1M) Net assets 66 ($9.7M)2022 Revenue 143 ($2.9M) Expenses 130 ($3.7M) Net assets 61 ($8.9M)2023 Revenue 184 ($3.7M) Expenses 162 ($4.6M) Net assets 57 ($8.4M)2024 Revenue 321 ($6.5M) Expenses 210 ($5.9M) Net assets 61 ($8.9M)2025 Revenue 290 ($5.8M) Expenses 235 ($6.6M) Net assets 55 ($8.1M)
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Revenue (290)Expenses (235)Net assets (55)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $13M (+14%).

$15M
$14M
$13M
$12M
$12M
$13M
$12M
$13M
$12M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 1% · 2019 13% · 2020 6% · 2021 23% · 2022 32% · 2023 6% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

37% of HAWAII THEATRE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$808k
’17
−$1.4M
’18
−$882k
’19
−$1.8M
’20
−$929k
’21
−$795k
’22
−$882k
’23
$530k
’24
−$794k
’25
5.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Gregory D Dunn

President & CEO

Board chair

Timothy Howell

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed312216171618181917
Joined·+1+3+4+0+9+2+2+2
No longer listed·109317214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $50k → $178k.

4 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of HAWAII THEATRE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HAWAII THEATRE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HAWAII THEATRE CENTER.

14%
largest funder
40%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 37% · 2019 30% · 2020 19% · 2021 50% · 2022 23% · 2023 37% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

42% of HAWAII THEATRE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

64% of HAWAII THEATRE CENTER's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
MO
MD
HI
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAWAII THEATRE CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HAWAII THEATRE CENTER

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Hawaii

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 9%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

69%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER?
HAWAII THEATRE CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,675,707 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($237,252). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAWAII THEATRE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $1,675,707 in grants to HAWAII THEATRE CENTER, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAWAII THEATRE CENTER?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $237,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWAII THEATRE CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing